Henry wardlaw moall



H. W. MGALL. LETTERING THMPLET. APPLICATION FILED MAY 2a, 1913.

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v LETTERING-TEMPLET.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 4, 19114.

Application filed May 23, 1913. Serial N 0. 769,357.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY WARDLAW Mo ple form of templet with which the lettersof the alphabet and the numerals may be produced on a drawing with the least possible labor and necessity of manipulation of .the templet.

The principal feature of the invention consists in the novel formation of a series of perforations in an adjustable templet strip presenting guiding edges to accurately and definitely guide the lettering pen in the complete formation of the individual letters and numerals.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved lettering templet. Figs. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are a series of plan views showing the operation of forming with my improved templet. Fig. 6 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the templet showing the position of the lettering pen.

Like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

Referring to the drawings, 1 is a long narrow strip of suitable material preferably celluloid or xylonite and transparent. This strip of material is formed with perforate letters comprising outlines representing the entire letters of the alphabet and the numerals. Those perforations are formed the desired size and style so that the internal edges form the external edges of the letters traced therefrom. This templet is particularly adapted for use with a standard style of lettering pen 2 having a bar shaped nib 3 with a perpendicular portion 4 adapted to move freely between the parallel side of the stem portions of various letters, the pen making a mark the exact width of the end of the nib. I am aware that tem lets for making letters in a somewhat simi or manner have been made known but so far these have not filled the requirements of such a -fectively tering the word BAR,.: three letters which device so as to enable the draftsman to erand definitely guide his pen to form the entire alphabet without a considerable amount of labor and shifting of the templet back and forth to piece the various portions of. a letter together and in developing the present invention it has been my'aim to produce a templet which will require the mini mum number of movements to print the alphabet.

It will be seen on reference to the drawings that the letters A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, 'S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z can all be completely formed without removing the pen from the templet. The

lettersB and It require one shift to be made. f

In making either of these letters the upper portion forming the letter P is first made and-the templet is shifted so as to bring the orifices with the stem and the lower loop or ,5 or 6 with the straight edge 7' registail portion is formed by a second movement of the pen. The letter Q is formed with the templet for the letter O and the tail at the bottom thereof can be made by using the left a lower corner of the next letter S which forms a positive guide. This letter can of course be a separate orifice but this is not desirable on account of its infrequent use. It will therefore be are not formed icompletelyin the one operation and the others require only two very slight and definitely guided operations. The numerals with the exception of thenumeral 8 are all formed with one operation and the numeral 8 requires but one shift.

With the present form of templet only 29 movements are required to make the entire alphabet and as practically no piecing has to be done and what little there is is done in the one extra operation the uniformity of letters on the drawing produced will be assured.

In using this templet I provide an under strip or supporting member 8 which is formed of thin celluloid or xylonite having a longitudinal slot 9 therein of greater width than the height of the letters. The bottom edge 10 of the strip 8 is formed of an extra thickness and provides a guiding edge 11 for the strip 1. The strip 1 is placed upon the slotted strip 8 backward and forward as desired to bring the letters into their proper position without blotting those already printed.

and may be slipped" seen that there are only and the remaining letters and numerals have Figs 2 to 5 are shown to illustrate the manner of printing the word BAR, the B i is formed in two. movements as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The strip 1 is then moved to bring the letter A into its, proper position and it is printed in one movement and as the templet opening for the upper portion of the letter R is next to A the pen is simply shifted and when this is made the strip '1 is again shifted to bring the orifice into the position shown in Fig. 5 and the pen is in-v serted to form the tail of the R.

a It will be seen that several of the letters are grouped in one templet, for instance, O and G are made in the one orifice. E,F, and I also L may be made in one temple't separate templets. In all cases the perforav tions are formed so as to provide positive and definite guides for the pen in performing the movement to trace the required letter upon the paper beneath the templet.

The provision of the slotted guide for the sliding templet insures the production of letters of uniform height and shape and will be in perfect alinement Without the necessity of preparatory pencil lines. The sliding of the transparent templet renders the spacing of the letters a very simple matter.

The templet as here shown is primarily intended for the formation of gothic letters those of the roman type can be conveniently made by shifting the templet slightly and using a thinner pen.

This invention is a very important one in that it provides an instrument for the use of drafstmen in'placing titles and lettering upon drawings and it is commonly known to those skilled in the art that much time is spent in placing drawings and even with the most expert draftsmen corresponding letters are never formedexactly alike. lVith the present device the full alphabet may be printed in a very accurate manner in about one minute by actual test whereas the time taken by even the most expert 'draftsmen for laying out and printing an accurate alphabet by hand is about an hour. The saving of time is thus very apparent and the result in a large establishment where more than one draftsman is employed is that all the drawings will have uniformly printed titles which will always be legible and will enhance the appearance of the drawing. Further,' accurate lettering and titles may be placed upon the drawings by the use of this templet than by any other known method.

What I claim as my invention is A letter templet, comprising, a strip of thin material having a longitudinal slot therein and a raised portion along the base forming a guiding edge and a strip of suitable material adapted to slide upon the 'slotted strip and engage the guiding edge thereof perforations prefor the lettering inthe letters and of and having a series senting guiding edges strument in forming numerals. v

Signed at the city of Toronto, county of York, Province of Ontario, in the Dominion of Canada, this 8th day of May 1918.

HENRY WARDLAW MoALL. Witnesses:

H. A. TRIMBLE, E. HERO the titles upon important 

